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fattylivergone
fattylivergone: 4 months ago

Is it possible to love your neighbour as yourself?

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stillwatersiren
stillwatersiren: 4 months ago

Yes. Obviously, it would be pretty hard to feel about someone else the same way you feel about yourself. After all, you can only experience your own experiences firsthand. Not to worry, though, here the word "love" is more about the action of love than the emotion of love. So it's basically another way of saying "treat others the way you would want to be treated". It's a reiteration of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

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numberthirteen
numberthirteen: 4 months ago

No. Not easily anyway.

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SagittariusAnna
SagittariusAnna: 4 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 4:15PM on 2/16/2013

I guess...maybe...

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40dawg
40dawg: 4 months ago via iPhone

If the Bible says so, yes.

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Bibleoaths
Bibleoaths: 4 months ago

Yes, but only thru Jesus Christ.

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Graceful_Lolita
Graceful_Lolita: 4 months ago

It is possible to love your neighbor as yourself.

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bettyeckles
bettyeckles: 4 months ago via iPhone

Only if Christ lives inside you.

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echooos
echooos: 4 months ago via Android

easier said than done

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mouse35law: 4 months ago via iPhone
So true !
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DeepDark
DeepDark: 4 months ago

It is possible to come close, but usually, in extreme cases, self-preservation will lead you to save yourself from imminent death BEFORE you save your neighbor. It goes beyond even human nature, to the nature of survival in life forms.

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mouse35law
mouse35law: 4 months ago via iPhone

Sometimes !

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gerardd
gerardd: 4 months ago via iPhone

it's not only possible but is a command and he wouldn't have told us to do so if we couldn't do it and as we find out later it's letting him have the reins is the only way to truly accomplish it.

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JamesKaeberle
JamesKaeberle: 4 months ago

Yes! Only though the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus though.

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cookieroma
cookieroma: 4 months ago via iPhone

Well since many people don't love themselves all that much.............

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truckerlady: 4 months ago via iPhone
I was thinking that, too.
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truckerlady
truckerlady: 4 months ago via iPhone

Kinda depends on your neighbor...let's face it... Some neighbors are REALLY hard to tolerate!

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adam11622: 4 months ago via iPhone
But Smith and Wesson make it a bit easier to live by bad neighbors. Ok, A LOT easier.
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susan.elliott
susan.elliott: 4 months ago via iPhone

I guess if you lived next door to Mr Rogers, it's possible.

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kaligirl77
kaligirl77: 4 months ago via Android

Possible but not easy.

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PsalmBody
PsalmBody: 4 months ago via iPhone

No, I Don't Believe It Is EZ 2
L o v e Your Neighbor As
Yourself Without The
Help Of Allowing
The Spirit O f
G o d T o
Dir e c t
Y o u.

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Jerusalem07
Jerusalem07: 4 months ago via iPhone

Yes

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trying_my_best124
trying_my_best124: 4 months ago

Yes it's hard though.

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alsubhi
alsubhi: 4 months ago via iPhone

1. Allah Almighty says, "Worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him. Be good to your parents and relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to neighbours who are related to you and neighbours who are not related to you, and to companions and travellers and your slaves.
2. Ibn 'Umar and 'A'isha reported: "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Jibril continued to advise me to be good to my neighbour until I thought that he would have me make him my heir.
3. Abu Shurayh al-Khuza'i reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day should be good to his neighbour.
Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour his guest. Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day should speak well or be silent." [Muslim. Al-Bukhari has part of it.

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MK0533
MK0533: 4 months ago via iPhone

It's an ideal. I suppose it has been attained by some people, but not many.

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painteris1
painteris1: 4 months ago via iPhone

I believe it's a good gesture but easier said then done

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sumanstr21
sumanstr21: 4 months ago

haha no comments

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rrobles
rrobles: 4 months ago

Yes. Which is why Jesus mentioned it as one of the greatest commandments.(Matthew 19:16-19) However, we should really ask ourselves, "HOW do I love my neighbor as myself?" The Bible, throughout, instructs one to exercise love, kindness, generosity, and helpfulness toward one’s neighbor, whether he be merely a dweller nearby, an associate, a companion, an intimate acquaintance, or a friend. The Law commanded: “With justice you should judge your associate [form of ?a·mith?]. . . . You must not hate your brother in your heart. You should by all means reprove your associate, that you may not bear sin along with him . . . and you must love your fellow [form of re?a?] as yourself.” (Le 19:15-18) (In the Greek Septuagint the word re?a? is here translated by the Greek expression ho ple·si?on.) David commends the man who “has not slandered with his tongue. To his companion [form of re?a?] he has done nothing bad, and no reproach has he taken up against his intimate acquaintance [form of qa·rohv?].” (Ps 15:3) Repeated are the injunctions not to do harm to one’s fellowman (re?a?), not even to despise him or to desire anything that belongs to him.—Ex 20:16; De 5:21; 27:24; Pr 14:21.

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